Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who pretended to be an Indian to get ahead, accused President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team of “already breaking the law” in light of a weekend report that the Republican has yet to sign ethics pledges that are part of the transition agreements with the Biden administration. Warren is an authoritarian […] The post Sen. Warren Sends Smoke Signals on a New Fake Trump Crime appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

With Chuck Schumer’s encouragement, Senator Casey still refuses to concede the race he has lost to Dave McCormick. Even the AP called the race. He’s a pal of sleazy Marc Elias’s. That should explain a lot. Jonathan Turley reported: The firm of former Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias has lost another election case in […] The post Jonathan Turley Comments on Bob Casey Refusing to Concede appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

X is fighting the Department of Justice after it apparently banned the social media platform from alerting two FBI whistleblowers that the feds seized data from their online accounts, documents unsealed in the D.C. federal appeals court on Wednesday show. X argues that the process for obtaining “nondisclosure orders” is rife for abuse. Prosecutors apparently convinced a D.C. judge that the FBI agents — who were suspended after making allegations that suggested politicization in the Biden FBI — were likely to flee the country or intimidate witnesses if they knew the feds were running an investigation that included subpoenaing their X data. Prosecutors didn’t have to explain their reasons for reaching that conclusion to anyone but a judge, making it impossible to contest. The claims that prosecutors employ vague but heated language about serious risks to a judge, with no opportunity for pushback by opposing lawyers, mirrors criticism of FISA courts, which often readily authorize wiretaps — including one that targeted former Trump advisor Carter Page and which relied on evidence that was falsified by an FBI agent. X, owned by Elon Musk, suggested that blocking the company from telling users about the conduct could amount to a free speech restriction. Matthew Graves, the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, is vigorously defending the practice in the appeal, which was secret until last week. X developed concerns about whether prosecutors routinely inflate the need for “nondisclosure orders” after special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed data involving Donald Trump and barred X from informing him of it — even though it seemed unlikely that Trump learning about the warrant would have jeopardized the investigation, since far from being secret, the Smith investigation into Trump was one of the most famous investigations in the world. X said that Trump not knowing about the subpoena deprived him of the ability to challenge it on legal grounds such as presidential immunity, but it lost in the courts. The company is now taking another crack at the apple after it was ordered to turn over data about two other users and not to tell them. X lost again in the lower court. The secrecy was lifted in June 2024, making the immediate issue mostly moot, but X appealed in order to set a precedent for future cases. Details about the X users targeted — and why secrecy was important — are redacted in the unsealed court filings. But Kyle Seraphin, an FBI agent who was suspended after blowing the whistle on alleged misconduct, said he was notified in June that his X account was targeted, and that the case appears to be about him and another suspended FBI employee. “I found out this evening that X Corp, under the direction of Elon Musk, has been vigorously defending the First Amendment and contesting the process used by the DOJ to pull privately held records without any allegation or information said records are substantiated by a federal crime. This is an unsung battle for free speech, and X and Musk are taking it on without any fanfare,” he told The Daily Wire. He said the FBI “is looking to settle a score with me over my whistleblower activities” and that he “received notice that the FBI had obtained my X account records in June of 2024 after the seal was lifted.” Prosecutors obtained a nondisclosure order by convincing the judge that there were “reasonable grounds to believe that disclosure of such subpoenas will result in flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation” — a remarkable contention if the targets are FBI agents who have not been charged with any crime. X argued that “there is nothing publicly known about the two users that would support the conclusion that either of them is likely to flee prosecution, tamper with evidence, intimidate potential witnesses, or otherwise seriously jeopardize any investigation.” But the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia was apparently persuaded based on evidence or arguments that prosecutors made to the judge in secret. Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to the appeals court that they later withdrew their contention that the users were flight risks.  X argued that like in the Trump case, the secrecy of grand jury proceedings didn’t seem to apply “because the investigation of at least one of the targeted users is already known to the public.” Seraphin has been vocal about his conflict with the FBI. Musk’s company said that the evidence for why a nondisclosure order was necessary should be shared on a confidential basis with its attorneys only — saying it was unwarranted to suggest that its attorneys, as “officers of the court,” could not keep a secret or had an interest in spoiling an investigation. The key legal issue in the case is whether the federal government can rely on “omnibus” nondisclosure orders that cover a range of targets or platforms, instead of arguing for each individually. X said in the case of omnibus nondisclosure orders, prosecutors often asked judges to gag recipients before specific subpoenas had even been written, making it impossible that they had shown that such an order was necessary for each one. Seraphin is one of several FBI agents who say they were suspended after calling attention to cases of the Biden administration allegedly using the FBI for political purposes. He blew the whistle on the FBI targeting traditional Catholics as potential “domestic extremists,” based on information from a left-wing group. The FBI later apologized. Seraphin also played a role in calling attention to anomalies regarding the alleged pipe bomb that was found outside the Democratic National Committee on January 6, 2021. He told The Daily Wire that the FBI used subway card data to identify a person of interest, who turned out to be a retired military official. He said he was assigned to stake out the person’s home, but was blocked from interviewing him, and that the bureau soon pulled him off the assignment to monitor a flood of tips about minor participation in the riot.

Whoopi Goldberg said she’s only working as a panelist on “The View” because she needs the money. The 68-year-old host was discussing a recent social media post from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in which she asked her followers why they voted for President-elect Donald Trump. AOC said some of the responses mentioned how Trump cared about “the working class.” Panelist Ana Navarro reacted to this, saying the next Democratic presidential candidate should make an effort to connect more with voters. “I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too, I work for a living,” Goldberg said. “If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here. OK? So, I’m a working person, and my kid has to feed her family, and my great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family.” “I know it’s hard out there,” she continued. “I love what [Ocasio-Cortez] did. Yay. We talk to people all the time who say, ‘This is what’s bothering me.’ But, the thing that’s bothering everybody should not be the thing that puts 85 percent of other people in danger. I think that’s what we’re saying.” Whoopi: "I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here." She has an estimated net worth of $60 million dollars.pic.twitter.com/leiouVc4jl — MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) November 12, 2024 According to CelebrityNetWorth, Goldberg has a net worth of $60 million and an annual salary of $8 million. During the same episode, the actress said she supports the idea of cutting off Trump voters from family gatherings for the holidays. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “I appreciate the voters, but I will say, somebody who tells me that my child is wrong because of how he or she feels, that tells me that they shouldn’t be allowed to be who they are with my permission, I have to question it,” Goldberg said, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “I don’t want to put my kid in that position. I don’t want to put my gay child in a position where she has to sit with someone who doesn’t understand her and feels like it’s okay to just blurt all of that out. That’s just me.”

“CBS Mornings” host Gayle King had to remind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) that Vice President Kamala Harris — and Democrats across the board — had lost, and lost big, in the general election held just a week earlier. King had to interrupt and correct Jeffries, who was poised to take the gavel if control of the House of Representatives had passed into Democrats’ hands, when he suggested that the race had been a close one. WATCH: CBS: “It sounds like you are still processing… It wasn’t close.” HAKEEM: “I think… the popular vote will be close.” (President-elect Trump won by nearly 4,000,000 votes) pic.twitter.com/rqxxZT3kPg — NRCC (@NRCC) November 12, 2024 Cohost Tony Doukopil suggested that Democrats had some good policies and successes, but had ultimately failed to present them in a way that resonated with the voters. He also argued that the Democratic Party’s presentation had made especially working class voters feel as though they were not really respected. “Well, we clearly care about making life better for everyday Americans, and it drives everything that we do from a policy perspective,” Jeffreis replied. “But of course, we’ve got to figure out how we can better connect the policies that we’ve worked hard to implement under the leadership of President Biden and Vice President Harris. You know, infrastructure, fixing our crumbling bridges, roads, and tunnels, creating millions of good-paying union jobs. That’s putting people first. That was a policy that actually happened. But we have to better connect why we are doing these things and how it will lead to improving the quality of life of every American.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “It sounds like you’re still processing, but were you stunned last Tuesday night? I’m just curious. I know lessons learned and all of that, but were you stunned by what happened?” King asked. “Well, we knew going into the election, as Vice President Harris repeatedly stated, including at the convention, this is close and it’s going to be close —” Jeffries said. “But it wasn’t close,” King interrupted. ” — all the way through. I think at the end of the day, the popular vote will be close. I think it was, you know, an Electoral College outcome that most people on the Democratic side didn’t expect because everything broke at the presidential level in terms of Donald Trump’s direction.” As of Tuesday, November 12, the popular vote totals stand at 71,898,818 (48.1%) for Vice President Kamala Harris and 75,158,912 (50.3%) for Trump — a difference of more than three million votes.

CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings roasted late-night comedians for their obvious descent — fueled by President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory on Tuesday — into naked Democratic activism, arguing that “at some point, people might expect it to be funny.” Jennings ripped into the comedians — name-dropping Jimmy Kimmel, who was brought to tears after Trump won — and argued that they were alienating half the country by telling them that only the Trump-hating people in their audience really mattered. WATCH: "At some point, people might expect it to be funny": @ScottJenningsKY ROASTS late night Regime comics pic.twitter.com/AB9ngrInLq — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 12, 2024 Jennings noted that liberal comedian and HBO host Bill Maher — who has repeatedly swiped at his own side for going too far with regard to gender surgeries, COVID lockdowns, and more — seemed to understand that going all-in on activism instead of comedy — and in the process, potentially alienating half the country — was not the wisest course of action. “The rest of these people have become pathetic. I mean, they stopped being comedians and they started becoming political activists. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel out here crying? I mean, it’s pathetic,” Jennings said. “And so my my question is, if you’re going to have a late-night comedy show, at some point, people might expect it to be funny and not just a constant political screed against one party, and I don’t — I don’t know that this activism for four more years is sustainable if you’re going to market something as comedy, but the actual product is nothing more than sort of a lowbrow political activism.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “These people represent the way a lot of people feel, so it’d actually be interesting if the Trump folks could actually make us feel like, ‘we’re not going to take away your rights,’ and that doesn’t make sense, you think it doesn’t make sense a lot of people actually think that makes sense. That’s the way a lot of people feel,” Touré protested. “That is their audience,” CNN host Abby Phillip said. “Is that their mission? To be activists and not comedians?” Jennings pressed. “Well, sometimes the comedian does stop telling jokes and says serious things,” Touré replied. Jennings pushed on, adding, “During the Biden years, there was nobody who provided more comedy fodder possible than Joe Biden.” That was enough for the rest of the panel, who all began protesting at once that Biden had been on the receiving end of plenty of criticism and mockery.

House Republicans, who are now projected to keep control of the lower chamber, are demanding that top officials across the outgoing Biden administration retain documents and communications for potential investigations in the next session of Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced on Tuesday that he and other GOP leaders sent a letter to every Cabinet secretary, telling each one to preserve records ahead of President-elect Donald Trump beginning his second term in the White House early next year. “As we begin preparation for a new Trump Administration and new Congress, we fully expect your cooperation in a smooth transition of power. To that end, it is imperative that during the transition you fully comply with all statutory record retention requirements, including but not limited to the Federal Records Act. In addition to compliance with federal record retention laws, we are also expressly directing that all necessary steps be taken to preserve relevant Department documents and communications,” they wrote. “During the 118th Congress, House Committees conducted robust oversight concerning the Biden-Harris Administration’s disastrous border policies, tragic Afghanistan withdrawal, collusion with social media companies to suppress free speech, and weaponization of federal agencies against its political opponents, as well as the antisemitism at our nation’s universities enabled by leading Democrats,” the GOP lawmakers added. “In the waning days of this Congress, House Committees will continue to seek compliance with many of the subpoenas with which you largely declined to cooperate. Likewise, as the 119th Congress begins, the Committees may determine that it is necessary to reissue certain subpoenas as they continue with their oversight efforts,” they continued, before signing off: “Thank you in advance for your compliance with this request.” Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) announced on Monday, nearly one week after Election Day, that Republicans were projected to retain command of the House. As of press time, the GOP will have at least a two-seat majority. A handful of races have yet to be called. The Republicans completed a 2024 sweep that also included the GOP retaking the Senate and Trump winning back the White House. GOP leadership elections in the House are expected to take place on Wednesday. House Democrats are slated to hold their leadership elections next week. Johnson is running to keep the speaker’s gavel, but the House likely will not vote on that role until January. It remains to be seen if anyone challenges him.